Electronic Observations

PatientSource's electronic observations module tracks all your patients' vital signs and records them, plotting them on a digital observation chart. It raises alerts for abnormal signs and can escalate these alerts until they are dealt with. Fully customisable early warning score system.

Electronic Observations (Vitals)

PatientSource's Observations module allows patient vitals to be automatically harvested from bedside monitors, recorded and plotted. Healthcare staff are alerted to worrying trends, and patient alerts can be automatically escalated to the next senior level until they are dealt with.

Our Electronic Observations solution is one module of our modular platform, meaning it can be purchased as a stand-alone solution or as part of a wider PatientSource system.

Benefits:

Saves staff time: observations can be automatically collected from a range of supported bedside monitors

Completely intuitive and familiar to any nurse who has ever used a paper observation chart

Outlier patients can be watched just as closely: see all your patients vitals no matter where they are on any console

Features:

Works as a stand-alone module or as part of a wider PatientSource system

Emulates a paper observations chart

Interfaces with a variety of common bedside monitors to collect vitals

Works at the bedside on tablets

Supports and calculates National Early Warning Score[1]

Customisable types of observation parameters: add new parameters as required

Local customisable Early Warning Scores (should you wish to override the National Early Warning Score)

On-screen alerts, alert notifications by SMS / email / smartphone

Escalation of alerts to a senior person should alerts not be addressed

Graphical display of blood pressure, pulse, temperature

Overlay graphs: e.g. blood pressure and pulse

Toggleable measurements: so you can display only the measurements that are relevant to your specialty

Observation charts are an important method of detecting patient deterioration early. However, healthcare professionals fail to notice abnormal measurements on observation charts between 0-46.5% of the time on paper charts[2]. Abnormal observations are spotted more frequently when the values are plotted[2]. PatientSource displays important observations as a graph. It highlights abnormal observation values, and automatically calculates National EWS scores[1], raising an alert at the top of the page where values are particularly concerning. In addition, PatientSource analyses the trends and can identify deteriorating observations even if the values are within normal range.

Get Electronic Observations:

Electronic Observations works as a stand-alone solution, or seamlessly as part of the PatientSource platform. Pricing depends on the size of your healthcare organisation. We are happy to negotiate performance outcomes based payment. We are also happy to help you write bids for schemes such as the Nursing Technology Fund, to pay for your PatientSource electronic observations solution.